Tuesday, April 13, 2010

My Journey to Publication - Part 3

Seems last time we were talking about this, we stopped at December 2005, when I graduated from Long Ridge Writers Group.

As much as I was thrilled to be done with the course, the task of daily writing is much harder to keep up when you're not working on deadline. My monthly articles for Destiny 3 Fiction were something to look forward to, but they didn't exactly take 27 days out of the month to perfect.

Lack of a regular schedule led to all sorts of nasty things: procrastination, Internet surfing, and plain ole goofing off. Gasp! Me? Can you believe it?

Then an even worse thing for productivity happened--my gig at Destiny 3 Fiction ended when the editor pulled the plug on the online mag. Sigh, so much for those clips.

I hung out sometimes at the Long Ridge Forum, a resource for their students. My relationship with the editor of Destiny 3 Fiction led me to an online writers forum, StoryCrafters, where I am still a member. Not as much going on there these days, but would love to perk up the place.

9 comments:

Nooo!! Not procrastination! I know nothing about such things. ;-) Ahh, the Muse Online Conference...total online writing conference awesomeness! Last year was my first year and I was so blown away. Great to read more of your story!!

I totally understand procrastination. How do you think I got here? But I'm glad I did.

I'm also a graduate of Breaking Into Print. Sounds like you had a good experience. I didn't feel the same. I produced stories because of the assignments but really didn't get any further than I was before the course. The stories were good, but still not publishable. I'm still working toward this goal. I did have one story published at Long Story Short in March.

Join a critique group. They can keep you busy and producing. You may also learn something new.